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• The 2021 anti-activist poison pill case (In re The Williams Company)
• Linking the introduction to tender offers in Chapter 3 as an anomaly to Delaware's preferred approach to trust governance to directors setting the stage for Chapter 5 and the judicial acceptance of poison pills to address that anomaly
• Revising the presentation of Blasius as initially providing a necessary supplement to Unocal, but evolving into a rule that is "rarely" applied
• Akorn as illustrating the Delaware Chancery Court's increasing case load of complex commercial cases in takeovers (as opposed to governance fights between shareholders and directors)

• Stellar authorship
• Rich but accessible coverage of valuation
• Notes following each case that explain the legal and business reasoning for "The Deal"
• Materials on insider trading, poison pill, deal protection devices, activist shareholders